The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 ... the size and shape of the bite marks using samples from large cats at London Zoo. They concluded the injuries were consistent with those from ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ...

Bite marks discovered on a Roman skeleton unearthed in York, England, constitute the first physical evidence that gladiators fought against big cats during the Roman Empire, according to Science ...

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said. Teeth imprints from a large cat were found on the pelvis of a man ...

“The analysis of the lesions on skeleton 6DT19 provides convincing evidence that these were produced from the teeth of a large cat, such as a lion,” Thompson and his team said in a study ...